| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 333 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; A Note On Terminology; Abbreviations; Introduction: From Alchemical Gold to Synthetic Humans: The Problem of the Artificial and the Natural; Chapter One: Imitating, Challenging, and Perfecting Nature: The Arts and Alchemy in European Antiquity; Chapter Two: Alchemy and the Art-Nature Debate; Chapter Three: The Visual Arts and Alchemy; Chapter Four: Artificial Life and the Homunculus; Chapter Five: The Art-Nature Debate and the Issue of Experiment; Afterword: Further Ramifications of the Art-Nature Debate; References; Index |
| Summary |
In an age when the nature of reality is complicated daily by advances in bioengineering, cloning, and artificial intelligence, it is easy to forget that the ever-evolving boundary between nature and technology has long been a source of ethical and scientific concern: modern anxieties about the possibility of artificial life and the dangers of tinkering with nature more generally were shared by opponents of alchemy long before genetic science delivered us a cloned sheep named Dolly. In Promethean Ambitions, William R. Newman ambitiously uses alchemy to investigate the thinning boundary between |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Science, Renaissance.
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Alchemy -- History
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Arts, Renaissance.
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Alchemy.
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Medicine, Medieval.
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Medicine -- History.
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Alchemy
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History, Medieval
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History of Medicine
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Nature
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alchemy.
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history of medicine.
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SCIENCE -- History.
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Medicine, Medieval
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Medicine
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Alchemy
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Arts, Renaissance
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Science, Renaissance
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Naturwissenschaften
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Kunst
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Alchemie
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Chemie
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Natur
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Alchemie.
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Natuurwetenschappen.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780226577135 |
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0226577139 |
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